Yves Klein Blue Draw Attention to Themselves

Our penultimate Viper Room act this evening is rising young Australian quartet Yves Klein Blue, whose upbeat songs and sunny attitude belie any notion of being morose. They just finished recording an album in North Hollywood ("Which we discovered wasn't really quite Hollywood," the singer stated with an admirable degree of understatement), and if the whimsical wordplay and catchy melodies demonstrated tonight are any indication, it should be a corker. If one must indulge in comparisons, Fratellis-meets-Maroon 5 wouldn't be too shabby a description...though that's a tad unfair, as most musical comparisons are: Yves Klein Blue possesses a compelling sound that's all their own...though one gets the feeling that the world will also being enjoying it in the near future.